Re: [gentoo-amd64] nvidia-drivers is bloking xorg-server

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Mittwoch, 12. September 2007, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> On 9/12/07, agtdino <agtdino@teleline.es> wrote:
> > [blocks B     ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers (is blocking
> > x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1)
>
> Xorg 1.4 introduced ABI changes. No proprietary driver can actually
> work with the latest xorg.

yes they can, as you say yourself below.

>
> > Actually I can run X with the nvidia-driver, don't want to update if I
> > loose the X graphics.
>
> either you mask xorg 1.4 or in the meantime drop nvidia-drivers in
> favor of xf86-video-nv.

or you remove the blocker from the ebuilds.

>
> Eventually you can even run startx with --ignore-ABI, but then you
> should modify the xorg ebuild in order to allow nvidia-drivers :)

and build X without hal support. If you use kdm, edit kdmrc 
ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X -br  -ignoreABI

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